easy template system


Current release: 3.06a
Date: May-26-2004
Contact: franck dot marcia at gmail dot com
License: LGPL
Copyright © 2002-2006 Franck Marcia
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ETS is a template system written with PHP that enables you to transform a set of data to any type of document.
For example, ETS can transform a list of product descriptions retrieved from a database to a HTML page. It can also construct SQL statements, ASCII data, XML documents...
ETS provides 4 functions to match a set of data with templates:
• sprintt which returns the built template as a string,
• printt which prints it out.
• sprintts and printts which use a string instead of a file name.
ETS supplies:
• array management,
• various conditional elements,
• access to any level in the data tree from any level in the template,
• data formatting,
• size reducing,
• integrated debug messages.
ETS works with 2 elements: the data tree and templates. The data tree contains every data that will be available. Templates define the way the data tree will be presented. You can compare it to a XML document transformed with a XSLT template: it’s exactly the same concept.
ETS can manage recursive templates, allows a complete reshuffle of the template with exactly the same data tree, is extremely valuable when working with database because of the implicit use of templates...
... It’s a powerful tool that will help you efficiently to build documents.
See complete documentation with tutorial (PDF, 219 Ko)
Download the lastest release with tutorial and documentation at SourceForge.net

Example

Template file
{mask:main}
    <h1>Simple list</h1>
    <table>
        {mask:row}
            <tr bgcolor="{const:color}"><td>{const:color} for {id}</td></tr>
            {set:_last}
                <tr><td>{_rank} element{if: {_rank} > 1}s{/} in list</td></tr>
            {/}
        {/}
    </table>
{/}

{mask:color}{set:_odd}red{/}{set:_even}blue{/}{/}
PHP code
<?php
include 'ets.php';

function getrows()
{
  for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i) {
    $data[$i]->id = $i;
  }
  return $data;
}

$page->row = getrows();
printt($page, 'test.tpl');
?>
Output

Simple list

red for 0
blue for 1
red for 2
blue for 3
red for 4
blue for 5
red for 6
blue for 7
red for 8
blue for 9
10 elements in list